The Shinnik Gazette
The terraces14 Jun 2032
Supporters organise against the Shinnik board
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Match14 Jun 2032
Shinnik are in real trouble now
Position 16, 24 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market14 Jun 2032
Silas Oningo asks to leave Shinnik
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Tempers go at Shinnik
Kirill Nikitin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Jun 2032
Artem Tarasov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom14 Jun 2032
Embargo at Shinnik
No fees may be paid for anybody, whatever the squad needs. Every rumour about this club until it lifts is a rumour about a deal that cannot be done.
Boardroom14 Jun 2032
115% of the income goes out in wages at Shinnik
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market14 Jun 2032
Artem Kolobov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shinnik has been clear about where Artem Kolobov stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout14 Jun 2032
The manager makes an example of Fedor Rybakov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Markus Kasemaa Jarl knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Markus Kasemaa Jarl called up by his country
- Squad Nerves in the Shinnik squad